Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 118
At all events we shall have spent an hour or two together."
Who acts: we · What happens: spend · To what, where: two, events
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 events | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 events | det |
| 3 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spent | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spent | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spent | aux |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 two | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 spent | obl |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 two | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | shall · perfect | we | two | all events | hour | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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